2025 Tony Awards Nominees for Best Costume Design: A Closer Look

The Art of Costume Design

• 🎭 Costume design plays a crucial role in bringing Broadway shows and musicals to life, serving as a form of visual storytelling.
• 💡 Designers explain how clothing choices can define characters and enhance the audience's experience.

Crafting Iconic Moments

• 🎬 In "Death Becomes Her," costume designer Paul Tazwell discusses the challenge of recreating an iconic movie moment live on stage.
• 🛠️ Achieving seamless transitions and maintaining visual consistency between live performance and pre-recorded elements was a significant hurdle.

Design Process and Discovery

• ✨ An experimental session with actress Jasmine, involving various red dresses and accessories, helped uncover the most effective look for the stage.
• 🎯 The team discovered that a style suitable for a photoshoot (resembling Dorothy Dandridge) did not necessarily translate to the desired Betty Boop persona for a Broadway audience.
• 🎤 The ultimate goal is for the costume to make such a strong statement that the performer's job feels almost complete upon entering the stage.

Tony Awards Broadcast Details

• 🗓️ Join us for a closer look at the nominations on "Broadway and Beyond at the Tony's" airing June 5th at 7:30 p.m.
• 📺 Watch the Tony Awards live hosted by Cynthia Erivo on Sunday, June 8th, from Radio City Music Hall on CBS.